Sun.Jun 11, 2023

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IBM's Watson was once heralded as the future of healthcare - what went wrong?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: IBM's Watson was once heralded as the future of healthcare. In 2011, the Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer was announced as a new tool for doctors and researchers, capable of analyzing massive amounts of data to help diagnose diseases, develop new treatments, and improve patient care. But in recent years, Watson's promise has fallen short of expectations.

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The Volume and Cost of Quality Metric Reporting

Digital Health Wire

A Yale-led study in JAMA reached a conclusion that many health systems are already all-too-familiar with: reporting on quality metrics is a costly endeavor. The time- and activity-based costing study estimated that Johns Hopkins Hospital spent over $5M on quality reporting activities in 2018 alone, independent of any quality-improvement efforts. Researchers identified a total 162 unique metrics: 96 were claims-based (59%) 107 were outcome metrics (66%) 101 were related to patient safety (62%) Pr

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Bonus Features – June 11, 2023 – Amazon adds FHIR APIs, NYU and NVIDIA along with Mayo and Google collaborate on generative AI, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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